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Doug Naylor, Red dwarf IX - Back to Earth

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TitleRed dwarf IX - Back to Earth
Artist(s):Doug Naylor
Category:BBC - Non-BBC label (Click on this button to view other releases of BBC - Non-BBC label DVD's.)
Label and catalogue number:Picture of images/labels/2 entertain.jpg label2 entertain - 2EDVD 0441
Format:Disc DVD's
Country:UK UK flag
Released:2009
Genre:Comedies - Situation View all other tracks listed as Comedies - Situation.
Format:Director's cut
Run-off codes:A0101244943-A912 16 IFPI L556 Sony DADC
A0101244946-A922 18 IFPI L556 Sony DADC
Item deleted?No
Distributed / printed byPicture of images/labels/2 entertain.jpg label2 entertain
Page views:1111 times since 20th May, 2017, global rank is 4325, rank in dvds is 289.
My rating:*****
Guest rating:*****

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Cover conditionNear mint
Record conditionNear mint
Number have1
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Tracks

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Side & trackTrack and ArtistLength
Back to Earth
A1 Director's cut [Doug Naylor]70.08
A2Part one [Doug Naylor]23.11
A3Part two [Doug Naylor]25.05
A4Part three [Doug Naylor]24.02
B1The making of Back to Earth24.01
B2The making of Back to Earth part two47.56
B3Smeg ups [Doug Naylor]10.46
B4Deleted scenes [Doug Naylor]4.29
B5Featurettes - The SFX of Back to Earth19.24
B6Featurettes - Back to Earth premier [Doug Naylor]5.41
B7Featurettes - Cast signing session7.45
B8Featurettes - Press kit video [Doug Naylor]6.26
B9Featurettes - Behind the scenes web videos - Carbug1.25
B11Featurettes - Behind the scenes web videos - Lister on the Street1.49
B12Featurettes - Behind the scenes web videos - Cat always lands on his feet2.28
B13Featurettes - Behind the scenes web videos - Robot on a wire2.18
B14Trailers and promotions - Craig Charles introduction0.34
B15Trailers and promotions - Broadcast trailers - Teaser 10.14
B16Trailers and promotions - Broadcast trailers - Teaser 20.12
B17Trailers and promotions - Broadcast trailers - Pre-watershed short0.15
B18Trailers and promotions - Broadcast trailers - Pre-watershed long0.31
B19Trailers and promotions - Broadcast trailers - Post-watershed short0.11
B20Trailers and promotions - Broadcast trailers - Post watershed ;long0.30
B21Trailers and promotions - Broadcast trailers - Final trailer0.33
B22Trailers and promotions - Dave blipverts0.20
B23Trailers and promotions - Life on Mars April fool video1.27
B24Trailers and promotions - Channel continuity6.22
B25Trailers and promotions - USA PBS announcements1.57
B26Photo gallery - Production stills3.55
B27Photo gallery - Behind the scenes3.52
B28Web videos
B29DVD credits0.36
B30Easter egg
Total length of media 4:58:23.

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Back cover
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Starring


Chris Barrie
Craig Charles
Danny John-Jules
Robert Llewellyn

Sophie Winkleman - Katerina Bartikovsky (Parts 1, 2)
Jeremy Swift - Noddy (Part 2)
Richard Ng - Swallow (Part 2)
Charlie Kenyon - Boy on the Bus (Part 2)
Nina Southworth - Girl on the Bus (Part 2)
Tom Andrews - Salesman (Part 2)
Karen Admiraal - Woman (Part 2)
Jon Glover - Man (Part 2)
Julian Ryder - Bus Driver (Part 2)
Chlo Annett - Kristine Kochanski (Part 3)
Richard O'Callaghan - Creator (Part 3)
Simon Gregson - Himself (Part 3)
Michelle Keegan - Herself (Part 3)

Written by


Doug Naylor

Produced by


Helen Norman

Directed by


Doug Naylor

Synopsis


Part 1
Lister, Rimmer, Kryten and Cat appear on contemporary Earth and discover that they are fictional characters from a television show called "Red Dwarf". They find a DVD box for "Back to Earth" and discover that they are to die at the end. They decide to track down their creators to plead for an extension, in a parody of Blade Runner. The DVD box also refers to a series X that does not actually exist yet. Katerina arrives via a second portal, but is quickly killed by Rimmer after she makes the mistake of telling him that taking the life of a hologram is not murder as they are already dead. A discussion between Lister and two children on a bus reveals that Kochanski may not be dead.
Part 2
Lister, Rimmer, Kryten and Cat appear on contemporary Earth and discover that they are fictional characters from a television show called "Red Dwarf". They find a DVD box for "Back to Earth" and discover that they are to die at the end. They decide to track down their creators to plead for an extension, in a parody of Blade Runner. The DVD box also refers to a series X that does not actually exist yet. Katerina arrives via a second portal, but is quickly killed by Rimmer after she makes the mistake of telling him that taking the life of a hologram is not murder as they are already dead. A discussion between Lister and two children on a bus reveals that Kochanski may not be dead.
Part 3
Lister, Rimmer, Kryten and Cat use the car they take from the President of the Red Dwarf fan club, made out to resemble Starbug. They go to the set of Coronation Street, where they question Craig Charles about how much time they have left. Charles tells them they are down to their last episode, as well as giving them the address of "the creator", before joking that he needs to go back to the Priory (a reference to the actor's real life drug problems).

They find the creator, in a scene heavily referencing Blade Runner. He tells them that their deaths cannot be undone, but they will at least die gloriously. In a struggle Lister manages to kill him, before finding that this was scripted by the creator. Lister then burns the creator's script and rewrites their own ending. They then discover that the typewriter is not determining their actions.

The small origami sculptures left by the Cat turn out to be squids, leading the crew to realise that they have been drawn into an alternative reality by another squid capable of inducing hallucinations with its venomous ink - however, in contrast to the previous specimen the crew encountered in Back to Reality that brought on despair, the hallucinations of this squid induce joy, almost euphoria, in an attempt to prevent its prey from fighting back.

Rimmer, Kryten and Cat have formed resistance through their previous meeting with the squid during the SSS Esperanto incident, but Lister chooses to stay in the false reality where he gets together with Kochanski, despite the knowledge that she isn't real. After a period of time with Kochanski, Lister decides to head back to his own reality, with a renewed sense of his own self-worth, determined to find the real Kochanski and win her back. The episode ends with the four laughing at the fact that the fans of Red Dwarf created by the Despair Squid's hallucination (i.e. the viewers) will think that their reality is the real one, and the Red Dwarf reality dependent on it, as opposed to the other way round.

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